Bucks joy at new title
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College has been given Privy Council approval to change its name to Buckinghamshire New University. Ruth Farwell, formerly BCUC's chief executive and now the vice...
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Partners in health
UK research for the National Health Service will be concentrated in a new form of univer-sity-hospital partnership, in which teaching, research and clinical care are fully integrated, under plans...
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Policies shaped by life
The Government has announced the first social science project to be funded under the Large Facilities Capital Fund. A £15.5 million study of 40,000 households called the UK Households Longitudinal...
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Bath drops arts plan
Bath Spa University has pulled out of the purchase of a site for a creative and digital arts campus in Bath. The university said it could not deliver the project in a reasonable timescale or at a...
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Scots cement alliance
Robert Gordon University and Aberdeen College have agreed to develop their existing partnership through a formal alliance, the first of its kind in Scotland. The deal will see Aberdeen College become...
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Marine venture
A marine science agency should be created to bring all public sector funders of marine research together with universities, MPs on the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee said in a report...
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Part-time sector suffers
Birkbeck, University of London, is to lose almost 40 per cent of its teaching income as a result of funding cuts for students pursuing second degrees, the lecturers' union warned this week. The...
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Nobel upsets travel plans
Profile - Sir Martin Evans, Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University. It was exactly nine minutes before the Nobel Prize for Medicine was announced last week that Professor Sir Martin...
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Lancaster gets inspired
A £2.5 million creative research laboratory, which will encourage a multidisciplinary approach to "exploring places, products and systems for the future" has been launched by the Lancaster University...
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Engineers shape future
Brunel University officially opened its new Joseph Bazalgette engineering laboratories this week and announced the launch of a new civil engineering with sustainability degree course. The...
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Learn about Cuba
Ignacio Ramonet, the left-wing intellectual and author, officially launched London Metropolitan University's International Institute for the Study of Cuba this week. Mr Ramonet spoke about his...
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Bacon nets RCA £7.2m
The Royal College of Art received a £7.2 million boost this week for its campaign to fund a new campus in Battersea in south London, after selling a painting by Francis Bacon. Bacon's Study from the...
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Economist chronicles
Academics have been given access to more than 160 years of The Economist after the magazine signed a deal with database company Gale to set up the The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003.
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Speaking to employers
The Government has launched a set of new English-language qualifications that aim to encourage employers to contribute to the cost of training their staff. Shorter and more work-focused than...
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Green leadership
Rick Trainor has been selected as one of Ken Livingstone's "London leaders" who have pledged to help set an example in making the capital a more sustainable city. The principal of King's College...